Mysore/Mysuru: Weeks after the Mayoral polls, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) got heads to the four Standing Committees today. All the four Chairpersons were declared elected unopposed in the election slated for today at the MCC Council Hall. The positions were equally shared by Congress-JD(S) combine, which is ruling the MCC. The Chairpersons are: Ward…
Film City project comes full circle; back in Mysuru
March 18, 2021Severe shortage of land in Bengaluru forces Government to do a U-turn Bengaluru/Mysuru: The B.S. Yediyurappa Government that was a strong proponent of setting up a Film City in Bengaluru has made a U-turn and has stated that the ambitious project will be back to its originally-proposed location at Himmavu in Nanjangud Taluk of Mysuru. …
Five arrested for cheating labourer of Rs. 33 lakh in the guise of getting him a ‘rice puller’
March 18, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru District Police have arrested five persons on charges of cheating a labourer to the tune of Rs. 33 lakh in the guise of getting him a ‘rice puller’ and have recovered Rs. 25 lakh from them. With this the Cops have saved the labourer, who had sold his family’s gold jewellery, house…
Aluminium ladders claim 31 lives in 5 years in Kodagu
March 18, 2021Electrocution occurs when ladders come in contact with live wires Kushalnagar: Thirty-one persons have lost their lives in Kodagu since the last five years while using aluminium ladders to either harvest pepper from vines that grow on trees up to great heights or while pruning tree branches after the coffee picking season. The deaths occur…
‘Implement plans to convert Kuvempu’s Udayaravi house into Museum’
March 18, 2021Former CM S.M. Krishna writes to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and Mysuru District Minister S.T. Somashekar Mysore/Mysuru: The long-pending project of converting the 85-year-old house of Poet Laureate and Jnanpith awardee Kuvempu (K.V. Puttappa) in city into a Museum has just got a boost with former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna writing to Chief Minister B.S….
Yodha Habba in memory of martyred soldier Maj. Sandeep Unnikrishnan held
March 18, 2021Nanjangud: Marking the birth anniversary of Maj. Sandeep Unnikrishnan, an officer in the Indian Army serving in the elite Special Action Group of the National Security Guards, who was martyred during the November 2008 Mumbai attack, Yuva Brigade had organised ‘Yodha Habba’ in memory of the slain soldier at Nanjangud Palace Grounds on Sunday evening….
Tiny bees to shoo away jumbos from raiding human settlements
March 18, 2021Pilot project RE-HAB (Reducing Elephant – Human Attacks using Bees) taken up at five locations in Kodagu by KVIC Mysore/Mysuru: With a view to reduce human-elephant conflicts in the country, Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has launched a unique project of creating “bee-fences” to address this burning issue in several States including Karnataka. The…
COVID-19 scare: Nanjangud Rathotsava on Mar.26 cancelled
March 18, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: With COVID-19 positive cases on the rise once again after a brief period of downslide, the District Administration, taking no chances, has cancelled the famed Srikanteshwara Gauthama Pancha Maharathotsava at the temple town of Nanjangud in the district, that was scheduled to take place on Mar.26. Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri, in an order issued…
DC to stay at Yelehundi village in H.D. Kote taluk on Mar.20
March 18, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: The next venue of ‘Jilladikarigala nade Halliya kade’ (Deputy Commissioner’s village stay) will be Yelehundi village in Kasaba hobli of H.D.Kote taluk, on Mar. 20. On that day, DC Rohini Sindhuri, with a host of officers of various Departments, will stay at the village to hear people’s grievances and resolve them, on the spot….
Good Samaritan Shobha felicitated
March 18, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Physical Education (PE) teacher Shobha Kumari (Prakash), who recently assisted a tribal woman to deliver a baby girl at a public park in city, was felicitated by Mysuru Yuva Balaga at a function held at a private hotel on Dewan’s Road here on Friday. Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) Chairman Hemanth Kumar Gowda presented a…















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